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-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic …
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This paper uses the first three waves of the Gallup World Poll to investigate differences across countries, cultures … and regions in the factors linked to life satisfaction, paying special attention to the social context. Our principal … findings are: First, using the larger pooled sample, we find that answers to the satisfaction with life and Cantril ladder …
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Starting from the assumption that improving well-being is the central consideration for public policies, we show how subjective well-being research can help, and already is helping, to choose public policies based on their consequences for all aspects of life. The core of the paper lies in...
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The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies among individuals. Its correlation with both...
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This paper presents new evidence linking trust and subjective well-being, based primarily on data from the Gallup World … surveys and the Gallup World Poll ask respondents to estimate the chances that a lost wallet would be returned to them if …
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World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and …
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satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country …
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living in Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a quot;happiness equationquot; defined over several lags of …
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the world. Responses to all these unhappiness questions show a, ceteris paribus, inverted U-shape in age, with controls …
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subjective well-being differ greatly among countries. Life satisfaction scores for immigrants to Canada from up to 100 source …, the average levels and distributions of life satisfaction scores among immigrants mimic those of other Canadians rather …
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